Clara Asscher-Pinkhof

Clara Asscher-Pinkhof (born October 25, 1896 in Amsterdam ; died November 25, 1984 in Haifa ) was a Dutch - Israeli educator and writer .

Life

Clara Pinkhof was the fourth of eight children. In 1919 she married Abraham Asscher, who later became Chief Rabbi of Groningen . Asscher died in 1926 and Clara Asscher-Pinkhof had to look after her six children alone. From then on she earned her living with lectures and courses and published her first children's stories, including Aan de wal , which was awarded a prize in 1932 as the best children's book .

After the German occupation of the Netherlands , she returned to Amsterdam in 1940 and taught at the Jewish girls' school ( meisjes-industrieschool ). In 1943 she was first deported to Westerbork and in 1944 to Bergen-Belsen . In the concentration camp she belonged to a group of 222 prisoners who were exchanged for German prisoners of war because they had an immigration certificate. It then reached Palestine via Vienna , Bulgaria , Turkey and Jordan .

Clara Asscher-Pinkhof died in Haifa in 1984 at the age of 88.

Awards and honors

1962 German Youth Book Prize for Star Children

Works

Joodsche Kinderliedjes (1918)
Van twee joodsche vragertjes (1918)
Door's groeitijd (1929)
Rozijntje (1931)
Aan de wal (1932)
Rozijntje van huis (1934)
Aunt Griet (1934)
Sterrekinderen . 1946
- Star children . Translation Wilhelm Niemeyer . Berlin: Cecilie Dressler, 1961
- Star children . Translation of Mirjam Pressler . Berlin: Dressler, 2011
Tirtsa (1952)
- Tirza: A girl in the kibbutz . Translation Ruth Rostock. Illustrations by Reinhard Matthäus. Kassel: Oncken, 1960
Danseres zonder benen ( dancer without legs , 1966)

literature

Marlies Sterk: "Ik heb gedanst". Leven en werk van schrijfster-pedagoog Clara Asscher-Pinkhof . Leiden University, dissertation, 2004.

Web links

Literature by and about Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Asscher-Pinkhof, Clara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch-Israeli educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 25, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 1984
Place of death	Haifa